KR

1-on-1 fight · 2015 → 2026

Kingdom of Robots

The 2015 game of sword and hammer robots, remade: six robots with a special move each, double jumps, Smash-style knockback, a bot that chases you and online rooms. Two robots, one keyboard, two and a half minutes.

▶ Play the remakethree.js · in the browser, nothing to installPlay the 2015 originalthe real SWF, with Ruffle
⇩ Download the .exe (Windows)
The remake's title screen: the glowing title, Steve Aragon's SA logo, the menu and two of the six robots on its sides

Three ways to fight

2P

Two players

As in 2015: both on the same keyboard, or a gamepad each. Each player picks a robot.

CPU

Against the CPU

A bot that knows every jump of the stage because it tried them with the game's own engine: it chases you, dodges, shoots and uses its special. Easy, normal or hard.

NET

Online

Create a room, share the code or the link, pick your robots and fight from two houses. Rematch with one button. It works on phones too.

Six robots

The two from 2015 and four new ones, made from the same hand-drawn bodies: new colour, new numbers, new special.

The robot AZUL

AZUL

★ Lunge

The robot ROJO

ROJO

★ Quake

The robot VOLT

VOLT

★ Burst

The robot TITÁN

TITÁN

★ Cannon

The robot JADE

JADE

★ Shield

The robot BRASA

BRASA

★ Blink

The three stages

The same ones as in 2015, with the same numbers: taken from the original SWF piece by piece.

A frame of the three.js remake: The maze1 The mazeRed and blue with a sun in the middle. Every 5 seconds two platforms fall.A frame of the three.js remake: The bars2 The barsRows of spikes and platforms that come and go, sideways and up and down.A frame of the three.js remake: The sky3 The skySymmetric bars and six clouds that rise and sink. No spikes: just the fight.

How to play

  • You win by collecting your 3 orbs (they're on your rival's side), by destroying the other robot, or by being ahead when the 2:30 run out.
  • Every hit pushes, and pushes harder the less life you have: into the spikes or off the stage. You jump twice, shoot in the air, and every robot has its special.
  • Spikes hurt, falling off the bottom kills, and leaving by one side puts you on the other.

Controls

Left

ADmove
Wjump
Qhit
Eshoot
Sspecial

Right

←→move
↑jump
Ctrlhit
Shiftshoot
↓special

These are the default keys: change them in the game, in Options → Controls.

The results of a remake match: Jade, the CPU, beats Brasa by KO, with each robot's damage, hits and specials

The game in 2017

The recording Steven Aragón Urrea uploaded on June 13, 2017, when he published it on his blog.

Story

KR wasn't born in 2026: it is a 2015 game coming back.

  1. 2015 · The beginnings

    One of Steve Aragón's first video games. Inspired by Brawlhalla and Super Smash Bros, he builds it in ActionScript 3 with Flash Builder and Flash: he draws the robots by hand, animates them with bones and writes his own engine, with screens, XML asset loading, a command console and a camera that zooms in when the robots fight up close.

  2. 2017 · Released

    On June 13, 2017 it comes out for Windows as an .exe, with a blog post and a gameplay video. In July it goes into a repository with its sources, its .fla files and its sounds.

  3. 2019 · Tic-tac-toe online

    An online tic-tac-toe arrives, with a socket server also written in AS3. It stays hidden behind the console: F8 and type triqui.

  4. 2026 · The remake

    Flash no longer runs in any browser. KR comes back in three.js: a small Flash player reads the original SWF and draws its robots and stages. And it goes further: four new robots built from the 2015 bodies, specials, knockback, a camera that keeps everyone in frame, a bot, online play and a new interface.

Play the 2015 originalthe real SWF, with Ruffle⇩ Download the .exe (Windows)The original 2015 Windows build, as it shipped.